Simple Calculation (for anyone other than me)

Question

I cant beleive I am posting this but I have fallen and can't
get up...
I'm trying to calculate (2) dollar amounts for this 401(k)
calculator I am creating.
Can someone assist? I am trying to add the 'Your Investment'
value to the 'Company Contribution' value to get the total
combined... Everything I come up with = NaN
Source .as file is here:
http://home.comcast.net/~shane.swoboda/four01k.as
Flash file:
http://home.comcast.net/~shane.swoboda/four01k.fla

Answer 1

Sorry, but I don't generally download files from thes forums.
Why don't you pull out the relevant bits and post them here?
The usual suspects are that you are trying to add them before
the user (or whatever) has input the data. Or that you aren't
converting one of them to a number.
Are you assigning them to an intermediate variable or are you
trying to pull directly from the text field?
What happens if you do this:
trace("the value is ["+myTextField.text+"]");
right before you need to add them?
Also a good trick is to go to the debug menu in the testing
environmnet and select "List variables" this will show you where
everything is defined. Perhaps your textfields are not in the scope
of where you are trying to add them?